Christopher Skase: Beyond the Mirage

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In just a few short years Skase rocketed from a novice reporter to controlling a TV network, to creating some of the world's best and plushest holiday resorts, to bidding for MGM in Hollywood.
Then the crash. Skase exited to Majorca. The authorities pursued him. Skase insists he is ill. His loving, distraught and once glamorous wife, Pixie, pleads for "a wonderful, wonderful husband". Here's a story too good to make up. And it's still unfolding.
Tom Prior has written one of those rare books you won't want to put down. Tom
takes you into the world of Skase, the money, the glitz, the good times, the hard work, the dreams...way beyond the Mirage.
Christopher Skase talks with Prior from a hospital bed with oxygen tubes pinned to his nose. "I wouldn't get my toenails cut in that place," Prior declares bluntly of the old Majorca hospital.
You're there too. Prior sips coffee with Pixie, as the words and tears flow. "I'm no Pollyanna...but I have no regrets with Christopher." You're there in Hollywood as Prior cruises in a stretch limousine to MGM. "You wouldn't believe it. A man's in a limo in Los Angeles and my gout comes back, the first time in three years!"
You hear Skase's mother and father talk of all the pain. "We don't go out much any more," says Charles Skase, who loved the spot light as a singer and radio star of the golden days.

You're with Prior high in the offices of the big money men who raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Skase's dreams, much of it from small investors.
You hear of forgiveness. What's a million or billion dollars when the good times are rolling? "I wish Christopher stayed here. He could've made it again," declares one tycoon who's been to the edge, come back and made $8 million in recent months.
"The thing is to face the music and always keep dancing!" Tom Prior is uniquely qualified to write this book. He's one of Australia's best known crime reporters, for decades covering the SBN 1-86350-174-6